Opportunities

Innovation opportunities

We are actively seeking commercial partners for a number of our existing technologies and research projects. Also, we are currently accepting applications from businesses who wish to participate in our OUTSIDE – IN Programme for 2016/2017.

Outside-In Partnerships 2016/2017

The OUTSIDE-IN programme is an intensive and high-impact innovation partnership.

We work with companies in a deep and collaborative way to uncover latent innovation challenges and opportunities, co-create new solutions and value propositions and convert these into commercial outcomes, via licensing, spin-outs or joint ventures. While every partnership is tailored to each business, the programme consists of four pillars with supporting innovation services and platforms provided as appropriate. Participants may be eligible for Government grant funding as the partnership and project progresses.

Given the nature of the programme, access is limited to a small number of businesses per annum. We have a number of available openings for 2016/2017.

EXPLORE

Problem Discovery

Opportunity Generation

Horizon Scanning & Foresighting

Project Scoping

CREATE

Generate and test solution

Connect to existing solution and IP

Co-create new solution and IP

CONVERT

Validate market opportunity

Commercialisation strategy

• joint equity option

• license option

SCALE

Market launch

Accelerate growth

Investment opportunities

We currently have IP available for acquisition and are actively seeking commercial partners to help take it to market. A small selection of our live opportunities are showcased here – others are available but are in earlier stages of development and/or remain protected prior to assignment.

Growth

Chitosan VFDVFD Continuous Flow Fabrication of Chitosan

About

Commercial application of the Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD) for the fabrication of Chitosan, the second most abundant naturally occurring polymer widely used in dental medicine.

Opportunity

Chitosan is widely used in dental medicine due to it’s broad spectrum of biological activities including antibacterial activity, bioactive coating and wound healing. Use of the VFD delivers significant efficiencies and a lucrative potential market in this high value specialist material.

Growth

Investment partners in the specialist dental polymer field have been identified with plans to scale up production of Chitosan to commercial quantities.

Research partnerships

While we do not directly manage collaborative or contract research through our office, we work closely with the Research Services Office, Faculties, Institutes and Research Centres and with individual academics and are more than happy to act as a first point of contact and link you with the knowledge, expertise and facilities to support your R&D and innovation agenda. Take a look at some of the world-class research being undertaken at Flinders University and at some of the case studies of how it is being applied in the real world.